map problems?

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 07/11/2005 22:41:13

map issues?

No flag to mark position of NPC from the NPC finder (and other location finders I've tried.. sample URL...

http://ballisticmystix.com/map.jsp?x=5529&scaleStep=2&name=atys&locId=npc1765&y=1503

In IE
Line: 1698
Char: 13
Error: Permission denied
Code:0
URL: http://ballisticmystix.com/map.jsp?x=5529&scaleStep=2&name=atys&locId=npc1765&y=1503

In FF
Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to call method XMLHttpRequest.open

In both IE and FF the cursor is left in a busy state, and the document is stuck in a "loading" condition that doesn't seem to complete

I tried a fresh install of FF, and IE I reset all settings (I never use IE so I don't mind toasting all my settings in there

Mintos is reporting the same problem on his computer!

The only thing i can think of is that you're running really high security on your browser and it's blocking the download of the XML file with the search results.

I can't reproduce it with default security settings.

Actually, the only time i've been able to reproduce it is when I set the URL for the search result page to something other than www.ballisticmystix.com, which causes a security violation because it's trying to download the file from a different host than the page itself.

Well, after some searching on the web, it seems like the times people report this problem is when they're trying to download an XML file from a different domain than the one that served the original page. This is exactly what I described as the only time I've seen the error.

All of the solutions seem to say the same thing... make sure the XML file is served from the same domain as the page.

In my case, the map.jsp is served from www.ballisticmystix.com and the xml file that it downloads for the search result is http://www.ballisticmystix.com/data/mapQuery.xml

I just can't figure out why it thinks it's a different domain.

I went ahead and tried removing the domain entirely from the XML request and just use a relative URL. For whatever reason, it appears that some people's browsers get messed up on what domain the page is from. Maybe by making it relative, it will match whatever it's thinking the domain of the page is.

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 08/11/2005 00:42:44

yep, this has fixed the problem. I also figured it was a X-domain problem (I've had to work around them before myself), but didn't see where the problem was.. maybe it's it's simply because it's a hard link, and in a situation where it should all be the same domain, hardlinks are caught by the exception in the browser expecting a relative link.

Seems odd, but only thing I can think of.

both my IE and FF installs use the default security settings.. so it's odd it didn't affect more than just me.

There is another problem with the new map. When you want to display mission spots like, for example, "Fresh Dandelion" ones you have
that result.

The map shows all mission spots with "Fresh ..." and "... dandelion". So, you have a majority of displayed spots without "Fresh dandelion".

PS: I can't create a new topic in this "Site bugs" forum

iknawoi wrote:There is another problem with the new map. When you want to display mission spots like, for example, "Fresh Dandelion" ones you have
that result.

The map shows all mission spots with "Fresh ..." and "... dandelion". So, you have a majority of displayed spots without "Fresh dandelion".

PS: I can't create a new topic in this "Site bugs" forum

There's currently no way to group terms with quotes. It's on the to-do list but just hasn't been implemented yet.

You can now group terms with quotes. Be careful not to put too many terms in the quotes, however.

For example, a search for "prime fresh dandelion" won't turn up any results because I don't store that whole string as a single keyword of the resource field. The keywords of a resource filed look something like "prime, mission, fresh dandelion, dried goo residue,...".

However, a search for prime "fresh dandelion" should turn up valid results.